Tag: burbank
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April 29, 2008 05:19 AM EDT --
"It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while." . . .
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December 08, 2009 02:29 PM EST --
Few people in the modern world know anything about quince... Fewer still know anything about "Chinese Quince" -- a tree so seldom seen that it could be called a complete rarity!
"European Quince" was . . .
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June 25, 2007 11:04 PM EDT --
I took my sweatshirt off, folded it, scooted it underneath me for padding against the gnarled, wooden trunk of the ancient wisteria vine and sat back down. Gazing up through the light-green foliage, . . .
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March 10, 2009 02:36 PM EDT --
I had the chance to sit down with Cincinnati radio legend Gary Burbank and chat with him about the upcoming "Concert For A Cause" benefit show that has been organized by Play It Forward, a local . . .
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December 15, 2008 01:31 PM EST --
What an absolutely wonderful surprise was in store for me, and I had no idea, absolutely no idea at all!
On Friday, December 12, a good friend and I travelled up to the North Bay Area, to a quaint . . .
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November 22, 2007 03:23 PM EST --
I received these in email and thought the photos were an interesting bit of U.S. history from WWII and a little bit of L.A . history.
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March 28, 2007 04:15 PM EDT --
Having spent some multiple of decades working in the nursery business, I have reached a plateau that I like to call “semi-retirement” (a term that I shamelessly purloined from James Brown). . . .
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May 17, 2009 10:00 AM EDT --
There were a couple of local, annual events that you could always count on when I was growing up in the Northern California (Sonoma County) town of Santa Rosa. One was the Sonoma . . .
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November 25, 2008 03:14 AM EST --
I had no clue that they had actually done this.......
In WWII they hid an aircraft factory in Burbank so the Japanese couldn't bomb it. How did they do it? By literally placing "blankets" . . .
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April 25, 2009 07:03 PM EDT --
(Author's Note: Edited 5:12 pm 04/28/2009 to correct link to Western Sonoma County Historical Society.)
This morning I journeyed down to Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol, Sonoma . . .
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October 04, 2009 08:46 PM EDT --
In answer to the call for assistance put to me by a friend, fellow member and fellow past Co-Chair of the Farm Advisory Committee at the annual fall open house event, I traveled the 40 or so miles to . . .
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November 03, 2009 01:01 PM EST --
http://Burbank-Chevy.com
877-627-9813
Searching for a Chevrolet agent in Burbank CA, then look no further as you are here! At http://Burbank-Chevy.com we offer more vehicles and more credit... Period. . . .
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February 20, 2009 06:13 PM EST --
I had three hours to kill yesterday in-between taking my mother grocery shopping and working on a friend's computer so, as usual, I stopped by Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm in Sebastopol for . . .
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January 21, 2008 11:53 AM EST --
". . .we plant-people are very strange. . ."
(First in a series of previously-published articles expressly republished here on Gather for my many new . . .
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December 13, 2008 11:38 AM EST --
Spring's sweet face has long since flowered and faded... Most of summer's luscious fruits have been devoured. Those unchosen remain, hanging from branch and vine like shriveled, . . .
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March 07, 2009 02:50 PM EST --
In 1859 near Lancaster, Massachusetts, a 10 year-old boy sat on a hill overlooking the railroad tracks as a locomotive pulling several boxcars went by...
The young, intelligent and precocious lad had . . .
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April 11, 2009 12:29 AM EDT --
This is my home: Sonoma County, Northern California.
I feel it's important to differentiate "Northern" from "Southern" California because, in truth, they are two completely . . .
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October 05, 2009 01:13 PM EDT --
Behind the scenes new featurette of Disney's The Princess and the Frog
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May 28, 2009 04:08 PM EDT --
I didn't include these photos in my last photo-essay on the Farm (you can find that article HERE ) mostly because of the horrendously SLOOOOOWWWW upload speed I have on my stupid dial-up connection . . .
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December 10, 2008 07:56 PM EST --
Those of you who know me here on Gather know that I am an active volunteer at both the Western Sonoma County Historical Society and its offspring the Luther Burbank's Gold Ridge Farm Advisory Committee. . . .
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